Inscription surrounded by floral border: Maple: PD.8-1980.f.48

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 326 mm Width 255 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour over graphite on paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 93
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: The Maple puts her corals on in May / While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling / To be in tune with what the robins sing / Plastering new log-huts 'mid her branches gray. / But when the Autumn southward turns away, / Then in her veins burns most the blood of Spring, / And every leaf, intensely blossoming, / Makes the years' sunset pale the set of day. / O youth unprescient, were it only so / With trees you plant, and in whose shade recline, / Thinking their drifting bloom Fate's coldest snow / You carve dear names upon the faithful rind, / Nor in that vernal stem the cross foreknow / Tha Age shall bear, silent yet unresigned! / Lowell.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight. / With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, / And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings. / Keats.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.48
Primary reference Number: 44184
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints